Criminal Appeals Act 2004

This section is in addition to and does not affect the operation of the Supreme Court Act 1935 section 167.

The Supreme Court may make rules of court prescribing any matter that is required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (2), rules of court may —

regulate the commencement and conduct of proceedings under this Act;

provide for extending or shortening, with or without conditions, the time allowed under this Act or the rules of court for doing any act;

provide for a proceeding under this Act to be dismissed without a hearing of it if the person who commenced it does not conduct it in accordance with the rules of court or orders made by the court;

provide for the re‑instatement of a proceeding under this Act that has been dismissed without a hearing of it;

allow or require a party to a proceeding under this Act to present the party’s case in writing instead of or in addition to doing so orally;

provide for the discontinuance of proceedings under this Act;

provide for the taxation of costs ordered to be paid in appeals under Part 2;

confer on a master or registrar of the Supreme Court, either generally or in particular cases, and under such circumstances and on such conditions as the rules specify, such of the jurisdiction of the court under this Act as the rules specify.